Fender Bender

Another right of passage: I had my first auto accident (as a driver) yesterday. Nothing too serious, nobody hurt--someone plowed into me as I was turning left at a "blind" corner. I ended up with a dented fender, which can probably be fixed. She was going way over the speed limit, so I don't feel it was my fault, though it doesn't matter anyway in this state. Curiously, the incident didn't put me in a bad mood. I felt much crankier the day before when someone sold me a cup of coffee that turned out to be no hotter than room temperature. It's often the little things that set us off . . . .

I was once a passenger in a car than flipped over on the New York State Thruway. Now that was a car accident.